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It’s Super Monkey Ball, Jim, but not as we know it… It’s very odd. Very very odd. Firstly, there’s an issue with the camera – I want to invert the X axis, but I can’t seem to do that. Then there’s the way the entire world tilts when you move. Yeah – that’s how it worked before on the other games, but now you have an entire actual island that moves, and it’s very jarring. Anyway. I rounded up some …

Nooo! Rodeo has moved out! And he didn’t give me his picture even though I was ace to him all the time (well, except for when I told him to eat more beef). Perhaps he’s got a job at McDonalds or something. Not a lot else was going on today. Gave Purrl a shirt, and delivered a letter for Pudgy, and also pulled all all of the weeds in the entire world ever.

Erm, so there’s only three “chapters”? Oh well. The last one started off in some sort of snowy wasteland, then moved underground to the Lost City of Atlantis, then moved through some caves, some strange gravity-warping temples, and finally into an alien spaceship. I can see, actually, that Prey nicked a few ideas from this game too, with the wall-walking and stuff. The last few levels were pretty difficult, as health pickups became fewer and baddies increased in number (and …

There’s a pattern emerging in this game. Collect the item with the big yellow arrow above it, and you get attacked by a million baddies all at once. Anyway. I managed to get through all of Rome, killing a huge thing with loads of arms, and then moved on to China. I wasn’t aware that much of China was actually in the desert, but that’s where most of this level has taken place so far. The baddies are much the …

Realised I hadn’t played over the weekend, so time-travelled to Saturday (to visit K.K. Slider – he played me K.K. Rock), and Sunday (but forgot about turnips), before finally catching up with today. I have a new animal – Podge the Bear. He hasn’t said a lot yet, though. Katrina was in town today too, and I visited her for her usual garbage tarot reading which makes no sense at all. Then I picked $hlmun weeds.

I have about ten million known good games as-yet unstarted sitting on my shelf. Things like Metroid Prime: Echoes and Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. I even got Fahrenheit cheaply this morning. So what did I decided to pick up and play today? Well, this obviously. Graphically, it’s nothing special. Originality is out the window. The puzzles are few and simple, and there’s nothing much to recommend it. However, there’s lots to shoot and the dialogue is genuinely funny. Best …

Oh no! I thought I’d kicked the habit after my Tony Hawk-a-thon in the beginning half of the year. This was mainly due to the there not actually being any Tony Hawk games left for me to play (well, besides the awful GBC games which are nothing like the “real” versions, so they don’t count). And now look what was on the Xbox Live Marketplace! So, Project 8 then. The demo is a bit restrictive (in time, area, and goals), …

No. Just no. Even worse than usual today, with a staggering 13,000 points as my bast score. RUBBISH.

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 seems to be a “bonus” Xbox Live Arcade game, as it appeared last night, rather than on the usual Wednesday. Played single player mode for a while, reaching Scorpion on level 5. All the fights before him were easily won by me as Sub-Zero, but I simply can’t defeat Scorpion as anyone. I’m also not doing so great remembering all the moves. I used to know virtually every special move, fatality, babality and friendship finishing move …

Still no joy with actually getting a decent score. I have improved even further, but I’m still miles away from the quarter of a million needed for the next achievement. Managed to get past the skin I normally die on, but didn’t last very long on the one after it.

A pretty dull day in Cheese today. No-one was really doing anything, nothing special was going on, and there was nothing good to buy from the shops. Kabuki kept asking me about a “mysterious otter”, leading me to believe that Pascal was about somewhere, but he was nowhere to be seen. Stupid animals, getting my hopes up that something might actually happen.

Although I still have quite a lot of game to work through, I managed to complete the rest of the route I was taking, netting me some gamerpoints and, most importantly, the end of game credits. Now to make a start on playing through some of the other routes, which seem bloody hard. Wish me luck.

Bah. I’m still rubbish at this. Managed to get my score up to about 40,000, but that’s nowhere near what I need for the next achievement (250,000). My current sticking point is the skin with the red-circles-in-green-squares and vice-versa. It makes my eyes cry actual blood.